True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
PLINY THE ELDEROn a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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Not a day without a line.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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